Intuitive readers
Stage Company™'s intuitive readers are its AI tools. Each one reads a document and gives the production team a draft to check. A draft is never final, and never a decision about anyone.
What they do
- The script reader drafts a Cast Map from a script, and the score reader a Band Map from a score.
- The notes reader sorts a notes document into notes, each tagged to the people it's for, and asks wherever it isn't sure.
- The schedule reader drafts rehearsal sessions from a schedule.
While the AI readers are clever, there's nothing more brilliant than the human mind. Only the production team sees a draft, and nothing is built, posted or added until a person has checked it and confirmed it. Anything in it can be changed or thrown away.
Who uses them, and when
A reader runs only when someone on the production team hands it a document. Owners can use them. Anyone else on the team needs a tick from an owner, one for scripts and scores and one for notes and schedules, in Settings → Readers. Owners can take a tick back at any time, and giving one to someone under 18 asks the owner to confirm first. Rather not use them? Build the map, write the notes and add the sessions yourself.
What is sent, and what isn't
The document goes, with only what that reader needs to sort it:
- The script reader: the role names already on your map and any notes you type for the reader.
- The score reader: the chair names already on your map and any notes you type for the reader.
- The notes reader: the names and roles of everyone in the show, with who plays or understudies which part.
- The schedule reader: the show's dates and the venues and sessions already on your schedule.
In a school production, every name on the show's list that Stage Company™ recognises is sent as a code, never as the name: in what goes with the document, in a notes or schedule document itself, and in notes typed for the script and score readers, unless the script uses the name for a character. A script or score is otherwise sent as written, and a name Stage Company™ can't recognise, such as an unfamiliar nickname, can still reach Anthropic.
In any other production, a child under 13 is named only if their parent or guardian has agreed; otherwise a code is sent in place of their name. Parents can change this at any time on My profile → Intuitive readers and your children.
The AI model
The readers run on Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5), made by Anthropic. It's fixed in the app's code, so it changes only with an update to the app, after the readers' accuracy and fairness tests have been run on the model it moves to.
When something changes
A change to the model, or to what the readers send, is listed in Settings → App version → What changed in each version. Production owners are told in the app at least 14 days before the readers move to a different model, or on the day if a change has to be made at once for safety.
Where it goes
What's sent goes to Anthropic, our AI provider, based in the United States, for that one read, and is never used to train AI models. We delete our copy of the document once it's read; Anthropic keeps it only briefly for safety checks, then deletes it too. The draft comes back to Stage Company™, where only the production team sees it. The Privacy Policy has the full detail.
Something wrong with a draft?
On the draft's page, tap Something wrong with this draft? Tell us, choose It got something wrong or It wrote something harmful, offensive or unfair, and tap Send. It comes to Stage Company™ with your name and email, so we can write back, and nothing from the draft is sent unless you type it. Something unlawful, or someone at risk: email safety@stagecompany.app.